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GenX. 90s weblogger. UU. Parent of teenager. DC Metro region (yes, #NoVA). Native Mainah. On these here Intarwebz since 1990. Born at 327.

Interested in many, many things!
Some serious -
#climate #ReproductiveJustice #RacialJustice #TechPolicy #Cybersecurity #Privacy #OpenWeb #DataGovernance #democracy #parenting #abolition #CapitalismFails

And some not-so-serious -
#books #podcasts #music #AppleTech #MyDog #Quilting #ipadart #ComfortTelevision #SheetMasks #ChattingOnline #hygge

They are trying to discourage folks from pursuing higher education and reroute them into lower paying jobs as well as bankrupt anyone who dares attend college can’t pay cash. No critical thinking allowed for non-trust fund Americans.

It’s hard to decide what the worst fuckery Republicans did today is.

Joe Biden was trying to forgive student loans. Harris would have, too.

Huge Changes To Student Loan Repayment Plans Are Coming, And Borrowers Could Pay A Steep Price:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamminsky/2025/04/09/huge-changes-to-student-loan-repayment-plans-are-coming-and-borrowers-could-pay-a-steep-price/

Huge Changes To Student Loan Repayment Plans Are Coming, And Borrowers Could Pay A Steep Price

If enacted, these reforms could cut off access to affordable payments, eliminate student loan forgiveness, and trap people in a lifetime of debt, warn advocates.

Forbes
Several top officials at the #IRS, including the acting commissioner, resigned after the agency agreed to assist with deportation efforts — NYT
@acm_redfox doesn't seem to be - I should be findable by my phone number there if you are able to get it from the call yesterday..

"When we see the charts of a straight downward trajectory, they also summarize what’s happening with cancer and Alzheimer’s research, academic freedom, national security, basic rights, the rule of law, America’s standing in the world, and so much more. If we could measure each, they would all look the same.

Trump’s chaos, extremism and incompetence are destroying them all."

~ David Pepper

#Trump #tariffs #destruction #government #fascism #authoritarianism
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https://davidpepper.substack.com/p/trumps-stick-up

Trump’s Stick-Up

Plus, Why Protests in Red Areas Matter So Much

Pepperspectives
@acm_redfox Yes, there is! Sorry about that. Follow-up question - do you have a signal account or text number at which you are reachable. (I just have a funny story for you - nothing bad/urgent.)
@Catvalente is working on a grand unified theory of the grand mess we're in. Part 1: https://catvalente.substack.com/p/move-fast-and-break-people-part-1
Move Fast and Break People Part 1: How the Internet Gave Us the World--Then Took It Away

The Internet was the greatest trick humanity ever pulled on itself

Welcome to Garbagetown

@RaymondEdwardF @franktaber

You've understood none of what I said. I'll try again with more details.

There are people who years ago literally wrote down a plan to turn the US into a "whites only ethnostate." They wrote that the left is racist as well, but believes in US institutions and wants to be seen as good. They wrote that they will use these institutions to sever the tie between Black and Jewish voters. They would consolidate 3 branches of government under a Fuhrer. Then, genocide.

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“It is no accident that those who seek to seize this country for their greed and self-interest are targeting segments of society where people are often motivated to work for the common good—government, education, science, medicine, public health, the arts, social activism, community groups, immigrants, and many others.”

~ Elliot Kirschner

#Musk #Trump #PoliticsofDestruction #FederalGovernment #research #healthcare #education

https://open.substack.com/pub/elliotkirschner/p/grasping-for-equilibrium?r=2xjx0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

Grasping for Equilibrium

Destruction cannot define our future

The cruelty is the point
The cruelty is the point
Heigh ho the derry oh
The cruelty is the point

Compliance in advance
Compliance in advance
Heigh ho the derry oh
Compliance in advance

The leopards eat the face
The leopards eat the face
Heigh ho the derry oh
The leopards eat the face

@jnfrd @mekkaokereke @lerxst @OldFartPhil @grumpasaurus 'In 1934, David Hilbert, by then a grand old man of German mathematics, was dining with Bernhard Rust, the Nazi minister of education. Rust asked, “How is mathematics at Göttingen, now that it is free from the Jewish influence?” Hilbert replied, “There is no mathematics in Göttingen anymore.” '

Göttingen is the birthplace of modern quantum theory, our understanding of the material world.